The Ultimate Guide To Healthy Cheeses

We’re gonna talk about cheese today, and I think we’re all here for one reason…

it’s delicious .

Cheese is too delicious to resist. It’s extremely unfair, in fact… how delicious yet unbearably high calorie cheese can be.

No seriously, if cheese didn’t exist, I don’t even know what I’d do. Probably wish for a world with cheese.

Oh, do you need more reasons to eat cheese? How about the fact that cheese is great for your teeth too! That’s right, calcium levels through the roof, plus it lowers the level of bacteria in your mouth to keep your teeth clean.

2. Bleu Cheese

If you want the best cheese named after a misspelled color, your best bet is to reach directly for the bleu cheese. Be careful – it’s got more sodium than most other cheeses, but also be careful, it’s good with literally every food. I’ve had bleu cheese in ice cream before, and yes it was amazing.

5. Monterey Jack

This cheese is mild and soft (like my standup) and it’s great on a sandwich (like my standup). You’ll find pepperjack cheese everywhere, which is just Monterey jack cheese with pepper flakes inside it, so that begs the question of why they even sell Monterey jack in the first place if all anyone wants is pepperjack. I don’t know, it’s delicious.

6. Manchego

This harder cheese from Spain is made from sheeps milk and is crafted in an incredibly specific way – so specific they’re not even allowed to make it outside of certain parts of Spain. Good cheese is good.

10. Gruyere Cheese

This is the cheese everyone thinks about when they hear “French cheese”. Well, except for French people, but they don’t count. You’ll get less sodium in this cheese than many others, which is a plus, and another plus is that it tastes amazing .

11. Parmesan Cheese

If you’ve ever eaten any Italian food ever, in your entire life, you’ve eaten parmesan cheese. And honestly, thank the lord for Italians, because parmesan cheese is the best, and I will fight you if you disagree.

12. Brie Cheese

Honestly, I have to admit something here – I don’t care for brie cheese. Plus, it doesn’t really have much nutrition for you, or calcium, in a calorie heavy package. A rare miss for the cheese category.

14. Robiola Cheese

If your first thought was “what the hell is robiola cheese?” you’re not alone. You’re also missing out. It’s a soft Italian cheese with a super rich taste – perfect for crackers or crusty white bread… or sweet fruits. Go to town.

Serving size: 1 oz (28 g), 90 calories, 4.5 g protein, 8 g fat

Things To Remember:

If you’re looking for healthier cheeses, a good rule of thumb is that soft cheeses are generally going to have less calories than hard cheeses – because they have more water per bite. You’re also going to get less sodium in softer cheeses.

If you’re going to eat cheese healthily, the most important thing to remember is portion control. Yes, hacking off 1/3 of the block of cheese and cramming it into your mouth feels great, but it’s not healthy for you, no matter how healthy the cheese is. Pre-cut the amount of cheese you want to eat and put the rest of the block away to prevent overeating.

Oh, and buy organic if you can and want to be super healthy. You won’t have any antibiotics or hormones in your cheese, and the animals will have been treated better.

I hope this article helped you. Unfortunately, there’s tons of diet and fitness advice online that looks like good advice, but is actually sabotaging your weight loss for a very specific reason.

Cheese is good. It also looks like it is good for you. People always freak out when you talk about cheese in a diet, but it has a lot of essential things your body needs. It is a good source of protein, so it is great after a workout.

Nothing wrong with a little bit of cheese right? I live in Wisconsin, where the cheese grows and there are very FEW places that you can go that do not serve some sort of cheese like the ones you have listed here.

I personally like cheese. All kinds of cheese and with the right cracker or piece of bread, you can really get the flavor of the cheese in your mouth. I have been thinking about wine and cheese these days, but I do not think I would be much of a wine person.

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